Experts & Dole Banana Case

Judge Victoria Chaney will rule decide Thursday whether the case Tellez v. Dole Food Co. has merit. Experts testified in a similar case last year which Chaney through out after testimony that plaintiffs pretended to have been workers on Dole banana farms in the 1970s and faked lab tests to show they were rendered sterile by pesticides.

Lawyers for Dole Foods and six Nicaraguan plaintiffs suing the company accused each side of fraud Monday in heated closing arguments. Chaney, who has been elevated to the California 2nd District Court of Appeals, returned to Los Angeles Superior Court to hear Dole’s motion to throw out the $2.3 million verdict.